I think the Songbird may be a little bit too relaxed. Designers love to excuse things like this by saying “Dude that’s dumb, everyone can tell it is music coming out of the headphones.” In reality it doesn’t matter if the user can discern the intent. It still looks like your logo beefed.
Infinite Undiscovery (a recent video game) has shocked me by its ineffectual use of tutorials. Here is an event where a tutorial was used: A carrier pidgeon arrives. A character explains that group X communicates via carrier pigeon. You read the message. A tutorial explains that sometimes carrier pigeons will provide messages from group X.
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I want to do a proper design for this site, so I’ve been thinking through ideas in the back of my mind. I’m a big fan of colourlovers and they post a ton of photos for color inspiration. Here are two that are driving my ideas for the redesign: Yep, mold. But these colors are
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Here are my top 3 favorite pieces of box art for console RPGs. 3: Final Fantasy IV DS (North America) A newcomer. Why? The art style of Yoshitaka Amano. This piece demonstrates one of his signatures: some areas have high complexity, some areas are fairly plain. I’m not actually sure if he designed this logo,
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